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WEAVING A TALE – HOW STORYTELLING CAN ENHANCE INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

Learnnovators

Picture this scene in the 1980s. While the end goal of education is effective education; for us to reach that end goal, we need to be able to get through to the learner by engaging their senses and getting them to pay attention to the material. And their music preferences. Make it black and white if you will. You guessed right.

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Illustration and Animation: The Icing and the Cake

eLearningMind

That’s because brains love to track movement, see pictures, and follow stories: it’s how it was designed. Consider some of the benefits of visual storytelling over more traditional training: Direct attention Let’s face it—not every piece of information is need-to-know data. Do encourage interaction.

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Grab Their Attention!

SmartBuilder

The previews roll, the music swells, and your favorite actors’ names appear in starring roles. You’ve anticipated this movie for quite awhile. When you’re spending time in front of a movie screen, you deserve to be intrigued, mystified, frightened, made to laugh, or … engaged and drawn in, in some way. Put them to work!

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7 Dos and Don’ts to Design and Deliver Successful Video-Based Learning

Obsidian Learning

Even if your audience is an entire company, getting as clear a picture as possible about the make-up of that population will help you create a video that best suits both the company culture and the expectations of your employees. Do use music. Music is the simplest and most profound means of communicating emotion.

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Drawing Upon Your Own Life Passions for eLearning Engagement

eLearning Brothers

It’s important to always remember your designed experience competes for learners’ attention with a host of distractions—emails, phone calls, real people, stress and deadlines, etc. Athletics, cooking, music, politics, movies, beaches, hanging out with friends? What engages you?

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Tipping the balance #blideo

Learning with e's

I only ever saw the movie Equilibrium once, and it was a long time ago. I thought at the time what a dystopian picture it portrayed of the future. Now I've been #blideo challenged by Amy Burvall to interpret this clip from the movie. Then the music starts. and he begins to weep as the music washes over him.

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Effective Video Training – Breaking it down

Dashe & Thomson

It catches our attention. Combining moving pictures with audio in a compelling way draws people into the subject. A good training video can bring out a similar level of engagement as a good movie or television show. by using a variety of methods – titles, voiceovers, different camera angles, music.